Gun Free Zone

There is a photo circulation in the webs that claims to be of a very passed out and very naked Andrew Gillum with a side of puke. I am not going to post it here, but you can click here and see it.

The Daily Mail got its hands on pictures of the hotel room after the fact but with a lot of evidence left behind. The tiles on the floor of those pictures match the tiles in Gillum’s photo.

And that is all I am going to say.

Los Angeles, California.

Under Prop 47, people can fill bags with supplies and walk out the door and the police can hardly do anything.

Add in a little Wuhan panic and police in LA have been told to significantly curtail arrest and are actively releasing criminals from jail.

But the law-abiding people of Los Angeles do not want to be stuck indoors for weeks on end.  They want to go outside and breathe the fresh air.

The mayor of LA does not want that to happen.  The streets belong to the criminals now and the citizens of LA dare not tread on their turf.

So what to do?  If you are a fan of the Soviet system or have read 1984 as a how-to manual, you encourage neighbors to turn in other neighbors.

It’s about to go down in LA.

LA Mayor says he will ‘deputize’ city officials to ‘drive around’ & enforce the “stay at home” order, and citizens must comply

Fredo- “what if they don’t stay home, how is it enforced?”

Garcetti- “Yeah, we’ll visit them…”https://t.co/OeHvQ7WiVr

— ??????? ??? (@my3monkees) March 20, 2020

You know that HOA nazi bitch that walks around the community with a ruler making sure your grass is just the right height or else you are breaking covenant and destroying her property value?

The mayor of LA has just given her the authority to patrol the community in her mask and rat out everyone else taking their dog for a walk.

There is no one more officious than someone with no real authority but thinks they have it.

She is going to get right up in your face with her mask on and tell you how you are killing people because you took your dog for a walk.  Don’t you dare talk back to her because the next time you take your dog for a walk, she will call the cops on you.

They will come, by the way.  Because busing your ass for not staying inside is far less dangerous for them than dealing with a convicted felon on early release who just robbed a CVS of Tylenol to sell on the black market for heroin.

Welcome to hell.

I finally got my replacement revolver from Taurus today and that is another story for next week.  So I went over Rick’s of 305Guns (see sidebar) with my 4473 already filled and thinking about all the stuff I had to do after.

He went online to do background check in the FDLE website and got welcomed   with a notice that the BGs were running about 3 to 3.5 hours late. He scoffed, I scoffed and we both agreed they were exaggerating.

An hour and ten minutes later I left Rick to do his regular job and I went to do my opther chores sans gun. Yup, nothing returned.  So I guess I could do all other stuff in the other two hours and wait for Rick to call me when it was all done but the screaming.

HA!

It took five hours and forty five frigging minutes for the Background Check to complete. Rick said the FDLE site is now giving you a 5 hour wait warning.

I need a drink.

Running up to 3.5 hours behind from the usual couple or minutes.

Don’t ask me how i painfully know.

UPDATE: They are no Stupidly Slow

We city folk usually do not get this good of a price. But wait, wasn’t the price of gas supposed to skyrocket during emergencies?

This is from Vice:

As Hospitals Prepare for COVID-19, Life-Saving Trans Surgeries Are Delayed
Though medical facilities may soon become overtaxed for everyone, the coronavirus pandemic has shed light on how transgender people’s care can be treated as “non-essential.”

Holy fuck.  That is some serious victimhood right there.

For transgender and gender non-conforming people, gender-affirming surgeries are life-altering procedures, which, for many, can greatly reduce gender dysphoria and improve their quality of life. But in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, trans communities on Reddit and Twitter are being flooded with reports of postponed and canceled surgeries in the U.S., U.K., Spain, Thailand, and elsewhere, leading to enormous stress and disappointment on top of a global health crisis.

I am so sorry that people getting sick from a highly communicable disease and taking up all the hospital beds is getting in the way of your having an addadicktome.

This underscores a common experience amongst trans people seeking medical care or surgery: Research has suggested that gender-affirming surgery, in particular, has a notable and long-term impact on mental health, but far too often, trans people already wait far longer than is safe or healthy for this care. Further delays can be dangerous and even life-threatening.

I want to be clear about this.  Suicidiation is a serious comorbidity of serious mental illness.

Arguing that trans people will commit suicide if they do not get transition surgery when they want it is an argument that said individuals are suffering from a serious mental illness.  This is not an argument to accelerate transition surgery.  This is an argument for the involuntary commitment of said individual.

“If you do not do what I want, I will kill myself” does not fly for anything else.  It should not fly for trans people, and to try and say that it does undermines the idea that trans people are something other than very mentally ill.

Violet Jones, a 29-year-old trans woman and assistant professor in New York, has a procedure scheduled for May that hasn’t been canceled yet, but she feels it’s imminent. NYC is a national leader in transgender care, but Mayor Bill de Blasio has issued an executive order delaying all non-emergency surgery for the next few weeks.

This includes things like hip and knee replacements for elderly patients.  The kinds of surgeries that have shown to save lives by making elderly patients ambulatory and able to exercise, preventing respiratory illness and bed sores.

Many trans patients already battle with insurance companies over which procedures are considered “medically necessary”, and health providers often use words such as “cosmetic” or “elective” to deny coverage, language that is mirrored by those unfamiliar with trans care in ways that can be hurtful. In strictly medical terms, “elective” surgery doesn’t just encompass “cosmetic” procedures, but includes anything non-emergent, even surgery for tumors and leaky heart valves. Many gender-related surgeries also fall under this category. Doctors and patients obviously want any necessary procedure performed, but currently, the idea is that they are not immediately life-threatening, and limited space in hospitals could be better used for patients affected by COVID-19.

With all due respect to the trans community, but amputating the healthy breasts off a young woman is not more medically necessary than replacing a leaky heart valve, implanting a stent in a patient with a blockage, or putting a pacemaker into a patient with A-fib.

If you think it is, fuck you.  Those patients could die at any moment.  At worst, you just need to call a hotline.

This is victimhood taken to the next level.